Ok being a farm raised country boy. I know one very simple thing. The more moving parts in something, the more likely it is to break. the weakest link in the chain theory. So when it come to something that obtains laws about my body and health, knowing how the government done laws about the seat belts and how once insurance and state licencing coincided with vehicular searches. Makes me conserned about what kind of searches the gov could inflict with the Affordable Health Care Act. Here are some length of document facts. Facts About the Length of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act (AHCAA) Posted on November 8, 2009 by mjbommar In light of last night’s vote on H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, we decided to calculate a few numbers on the current bill. Based on the Library of Congress’s XML representation of the bill (which can be obtained here), we have calculated a number of linguistic and citation properties of the Bill. The House of Representative approved HR 3962 by a 220-215 margin. The New York Times features a useful analysis of the vote including a breakout by party and region here. On the Sunday morning talk shows as well as in other outlets, there has been significant discussion regarding the size of H.R. 3962. Specifically, many critics have decried the length of the bill citing its 1990 pages. The bill is indeed 1990 pages as you can see if you choose to download a PDF copy of the bill. The purpose of this post is to provide a perspective regarding the length of H.R. 3962. Those versed in the typesetting practices of the United States Congress know that the printed version of a bill contains a significant amount of whitespace including non-trivial space between lines, large headers and margins, an embedded table of contents, and large font. For example, consider page 12 of the printed version of H.R. 3962. This page contains fewer than 150 substantive words. We believe a simple page count vastly overstates the actual length of bill. Rather than use page counts, we counted the number of words contained in the bill and compared these counts to the number of words in the existing United States Code. In addition, we consider the number of text blocks in the bill– where a text block is a unit of text under a section, subsection, clause, or sub-clause. Basic Information about the Length of H.R. 3962 Number of words in H.R. 3962 impacting substantive law: 234,812 words (w/ generous calculation) Number of total words in H.R. 3962: 363,086 words (w/ titles, tables of contents …) Number of text blocks: 7,961 Average number of words per text block: 24.18 Average words per section: 267.03
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